Shade and curtain fixture



F. W. SCHENMEYER.

SHADE AND CURTAIN FIX TURE,

APPLICATION FILED AUG-6. 1919.

Patented Aug 24, 1920.

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FREDERICK W. SCHENMEYER, OF

WEST ALBANY, NEW YORK.

' SHADE AND CURTAIN r-rxruzen.

Application filed August 6, 1919.

To all who-m it may concern:

Beit known that I, FREDERICK W. SoHEN- MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at est Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade and Curtain Fixtures, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtains, shades and screens, and more especially to those combined fixtures intended to support the shade roller and the curtain pole; and the is to produce a structure of this kind in two members which are attachable to the edges of the window casing with the shade roller brackets adjustable thereon. It therefore becomes possible to put up these devices without marring the ornamental face of the window casing, while yet permitting the fixtures to be adjusted to the length of the shade roller; whereas the curtain pole'may be made up of the usual telescopic tubes so that it can be adjusted to the brackets, or if it be a wooden pole it can easily be provided with holes spaced to fit the brackets'which latter therefore do not need adjustment.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper portion of a window with a pair of these devices in place.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged of one bracket.

Fig. 4 is a similar detail of the right-hand shade roller fixture viewed from the rear.

In Fig. 1 is illustrated the upper sash S and the windowfranie or casing C To the side bars of this casing are to be attached brackets as shown generally at B in Fig. 3, and the brackets are to carry fixtures F.

Each bracket may be stamped of sheet metal or cast or otherwise formed. Each bracket comprises a foot 1 pierced with holes 2 through which attaching nails or screws may be driven into the edge of the casing, an arm 3 projecting straight outward from said foot, with upright spurs or pins 4: and 5 at the outer end of said arm; and to the arm at the base of its foot is attached a flat bar 6 extending at right angles to the plane of the arm and longitudinally slotted as at 7, the upper and lower edges of the slot being notched at 8 to produce teeth perspective detail I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

Serial No. 315,715.

which are out of alinement or staggered as best seen in Fig. 3, but the two outermost notches 9 are opposite each other. An abutment or offset 15 is provided at the junction of the bar 6 and foot 1 to bear against the front face of the casing and space the bar therefrom.

The roller fixture F has an 10 and a bearing 11 at its outer end for the roller trunnion, and a flat base plate 12 extends across the inner edge of'the body and is reversely bent at its upper end into a hook 13. Secured to the rear face of the base plate is a T-headed stud 1 1, the head of the T standing transversely of the plate. The roller fixtures will, of course, be rights and lefts, the body members extending from opposite edges of the base plate and one bearing 11 being the usual circular opening and the other bearing being the usual notch.

In putting up this device according to instructions which may be inclosed in the package with a pair, the brackets are tacked or screwed to the outer edges of the side bars of the casing C, so th. t the bars 6 extend inward toward each other and out of contact with the face of such casing. The fixtures F are now brought into position, the base plate 12 of each laid over the face of one bar 6 and in parallelism therewith, the head of the stud 1 1 being passed through the outer pair of notches 9 at which time the bill of the hook 13 will lie beyond the extremity of the bar; now the base plate is turned upright so that the hook passes over the upper edge of the bar 6, and the entire fixture is moved to carry the shank of the stud along the slot 7 to adjust the fixture to the desired position; and finally said shank is dropped into one of the lower notches 8 at which time the bend of the hook 13 will come into contact with the upper edge of the bar 6 as shown in Fig. 2. so that the fixture is rigidly held in its adjusted position. The trunnions of the shade roller are then inserted and the curtain pole adjusted to the uppermost spurs or pins 4: and 5. Should the owner be a tenant who moves into another house, he can take down these devices and carry them with him, putting them up in the new house and adjusting the fixtures F if the width of the window frame be different; or if he should leave the devices in the house he vacates, a subsequent tenant could adjust the fixtures to fit the length of shade roller he brings with him.

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of a head and a Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A combined shade roller and curtain pole support comprising a bracket for attachment to a Window casing, said bracket including an inwardly projecting bar having a longitudinal slot provided with spaced notches in the opposed edges thereof, and a shade roller bracket provided at its inner end with'a relatively fixed stud consisting shank, the shank being disposed at right angles to the plane of the bar and .adjustable along the slot therein to seat, in any one of said notches with the head bridging the notch in which the shank is 2. In a device of the class described, duplicate brackets each comprising a foot to be secured to the edge of the window casing, and a bar projecting at right angles to the plane of a foot and slotted throughout its length, the upper and lower edges of the slot having notches out of register throughout its length but with the two innermost notches inregister; of a pair of fixtures each comprising a body, a base plate secured across the inner edge of the same and hooked to the rear atits'upper end, and a relatively fixed stud projecting from the rear face of the base plate and having a T-head disposed transversely to the length of said plate, the head being of a size 'to pass through said alined' notches and the shank of the stud disposed to engage one of the notches in the lower edge of the slot when the hook engages over the upper edge of the bar, the head bridging the notch in which the shank is seated. V

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FREDK. W. SCHENMEYER. [L. 8.] 

